Bail-ear for metallic vessels.



PATENTED DEC. 15, 190.3. Y

Nor-746,733.

G B MoDONALD BAIL EAR FOR BLIBTALLIC VESSELS.

APPLIVOATION FILED DEG. 17, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

CHARLES B. McDQLljALD,

Patented Ibecember 15, 1903.

enomece, ILLINOIS.

BAIL-EAR FOR METALLIC VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,733, dated December 15, 1903. Application filed De m er 17, 1902. Serial No. 18515421. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, CHARLES E. MCDONALD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bail-Ears for Metallic Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bail-ears for metallic vessels; and its object is to provide a new and improved device of this character which may be attached to metallic vessels without leaving an opening for the escape of the contents thereof.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming apart thereof, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a metallic vessel provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is an en- }jarged sectional view through the bail-ear of ig. 1. of the vessel, showing the parts of the bailear as they appear when assembled, being taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a detail of the outside of the bail-ear, being the reverse of Fig. 3 and being taken on the line44ofFig.2. r

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 denotes a metallic vessel, such as a lard-pail, for example, provided with a suitable handle or bail 2, these parts being of any desired size and shape. The vessel is provided with opposite circular openings, each having an inturned flange or wall 3, providing a seat adapted to receive a correspondingly-shaped cup 4. The bottom of the cup is closed, and the edge or rim of its mouth is provided with a flange 5, which seats within a recess or depression 6, surrounding the corresponding flange at the opening in the pail. The cup is seated within its associated seat and is held firmly therein by the friction "of the body of the cup upon the flange 3, which surrounds the openingand in which the cup is pressed. The cup makes a close fit within its seat, beingdriven therein by any suitable means,as a press, which at the same operation will spread or upset the metal of the cup against the seat, as by suitably indenting the bottom wall of the cup in order more securely to hold the cup within its seat. The edge or rim 5 of the cup limits its extent of entrance into the Fig. 3 is a detail view of the inside opening and is flush with the outside face of the, body of the pail, and its body portion forms a closure to efiectually seal the opening in which it rests against an yescape of the contents of the pail.

The cup 4 receives an inner cap 7 in the form of an annular cup and whose body isin the form of a circular flange 8, which is pressed within the open mouth of the cup,

with its flange in frictional engagement with the inner face of the body of the cup, whereby the cap is locked in place. The face of the cap is preferably slightly bulged, as shown, and is provided with a suitable perforation 9 to receive the end of the handle, as shown in Fig. 1. The cap is preferably fitted within the cup before the latter is inserted within its seat, whereby the pressure on the flange 5 of the cup when the latter is driven to place, as by a'suitable press, serves to crowd the metal against the cap to more securely hold it in place. place by the friction of their contacting surfaces, and the ear in turn is held in the seat of the vessel by friction with its seat or inturned flange 3. This form of joint provides three friction-surfaces, arid-as the coacting flange 3, the body of the cup 4, and the body or flange 8 of the cap'are all made by drawingthe metalin suitable draw-rings the coacting surfaces are perfectly true and have a smooth finish. The cup telescopes within its seat, and the cap in turn telescopes within the cup, whereby the parts are easily and quickly assembled without any manipulation in adjusting them and are held securely in position. The seats for the ears are interned, whereby the exterior surface. of the pail or vessel presents a smooth finish.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letter'sPatent,

1. In a-metallic vessel, the combination of The parts of the car are held in' a body having opposite openings provided with interned flanges, cups seated in the openings in engagement with the flanges, and caps held in the cups and provided with bail-attaching means.

2. In a metallic vessel, the combination of a body having openings provided with inturned flanges, cups having their bodies seating flanges seated in the cups and provided ed on the flanges of the openings, and caps with openings. 10 having flanges seated in the cups. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 3. In a metallic Vessel, the combination of in presence of two witnesses. 5 a body having openings provided with in- CHARLES B. MCDONALD.

turned flanges and recesses about the flanges, Witnesses: cups seated on the flanges and having lateral GEORGE E. HARBAUGH,

flanges resting in the recesses, and caps hav- R. K. GUSTAFSON. 

